After his conviction for sexual assault, Nicolas Bedos reveals that he himself had a rape-Liberation
The book could have been called Confessions of a « asshole » of this century. In a tone more serious than the one we know himit is rather The thirst for shame which was chosen in title by Nicolas Bedos. An allusion to alcoholism which the author ensures healing himself, in an introspective book available in bookstores from May 7, at the editions of the Observatory, and which he evokes in an interview with Point published this Wednesday, April 30.
A 300-page mea culpa, written in the form of a dialogue with himself, or other characters, in which the screenwriter caesarized in 2020 for his film The beautiful perioddecipher the reasons which led him, in October 2023, to be sentenced to one year in prison, including six months suspended for sexual assault.
A complainant accused her of having led her right before reaching out to her gender, over her jeans, on the night of June 1 to 2, 2023. Another had said that we were drunk, he had caught it by the waist and kissed in the neck on the night of May 11 to 12, 2023. The actor was, on the other hand, « For the benefit of doubt » For acts of sexual harassment in 2018.
During the hearing, he defended himself from being « A sexual attacker » and had mentioned a « blackout »by recognizing alcohol problems and « Heavy kindness » In case of drunkenness.
But more broadly, Nicolas Bedos also tries to explore How his conduct was able, throughout his lifehurt the women he met. “I have long been selfishness and cowardice (…) What matters is that I hurt. Most often, unwittingly, but I did it. Lots of men of my generation made mistakes, but I think I have made more than others ”he admits in an interview with Point This Wednesday, titled on the weekly « This is the story of an asshole »and made by Journalist Peggy Sastrefollower of Darwinian theses as a key to reading gender issues.
Confessions that allow Nicolas Bedos to highlight any drifts of #Meetoo, without explicitly denouncing them, and to confide in his own injuries. In particular a rape, which the son of humorist Guy Bedos claims to have suffered from a « Person, very admired at the time, (who) saw his life sink in a fairly tragic way thereafter » and against whom he has « Never considered to file a complaint ».
« But I’m very clear, I don’t use it like a shield »insists the 46 -year -old actor and director.
Bedos anticipates the criticism that can be addressed to him, to blame himself to remove from others the right to do so. « »Mediapart will dismantle you, Liberty Go write that your book is a disguised plea, that you are not so thirsty for shame as they are rehabilitated. That you want to pass for a victim. That you don’t assume anything. They will say that you master everything, even your shame, even your fall, and that you find the way to be the hero of this story « he also makes one of the characters say in his book, who serves him himself.
Recently become the father of a little girl, he ensures above all to have written to send her a message. « That I was not always a good guy, but that I am a father who repaired himself. That I did not fled. That I did not deny. That I have not pretended to be only a unlucky man caught in a gear « he explains to Point. At the end of January, Nicolas Bedos had given up calling his trial, on the grounds, he said today, that he would have won it « Neither peace nor nuance ».
